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...still have a few seconds left. Time becomes stretched to the outermost limits. To your right you see the mahogany floor divider that separates four brown church-type pews from the rest of the room. They look odd in this beige Zen-like chamber. There is another door at the back through which the witnesses arrive and sit in the pews. You stare up at two groups of fluorescent lights on the ceiling. They are on. The paint on the ceiling is peeling...
...afternoon in New England between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It makes you think winter vacation is coming up even though it's been 15 years since you had to go to school and throw spitballs. Anyway there's no winter vacation in the real world. I took a course in Zen once, but it didn't help me deal with the real world. Climbing the hill. I kept seeing people in laundromats, throwing lint on the floor, people pushing other people in the aisles in the frantic search for New Wonder Fab Cereal, people running each other over with Pacers. Datsuns...
HESR organizer Belle Zen, a first-year doctoral student, added. "I think they [the Corporation members] are waiting for a mes-message from the rest of the University...
...also earned him much animosity, because he spent excessive amounts of time out of Sacramento. His judicial appointments have met fierce opposition from those who object to the liberal bent of his appointees. Finally, his well publicized private life has occasionally surfaced as a source of embarrassment with his Zen Buddhism and sketchy affair with pop star Linda Ronstadt drawing the most barbs. Going into the race, Brown's popularity rated dismal at best...
...tough-guy movie hero these days, it doesn't matter whether he can dish it out; he has to be able to take it. He must be a Zen stoic who overdoses on pain in order to prove himself to himself. In Barbarosa, Willie Nelson lies placidly in his own new grave; he cauterizes his own stomach wound with flaming gunpowder; an enemy's bullet creases his cheek-not a word, not a whine, not so much as a flinch. In The Challenge, Scott Glenn dines on live eels and beetles; stands buried up to his neck...